The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 516 The pleasure of crushing ([-])
Looking at the earth-colored and trembling patriarchs below.Guan Yi seemed to feel that the stimulation was not enough.

"What I need to inform you is that the booklet in your hands has 38 sheets in total, excluding the front cover and back cover, a total of 72 pages. There are more than [-] words printed on it. The cost, uh, This batch is too small to print, so the cost is a little more expensive. About twenty dollars per copy."

what!Only twenty dollars?What concept is this?
Thanks to the comprehensive promotion of potatoes, the current Chinese people, as long as they are not too lazy.Local officials or the imperial court should not take away too much. Generally, it is not a big problem to ask for food and clothing.This has led to the fact that food prices have remained stable at a price of one hundred yuan per stone in recent years.So twenty yuan for a book is equivalent to five or six days of food rations for an adult: the money will come out after a little squeeze for an ordinary family!
And the price of this book can be further reduced!And this book actually carries more than 4000 words? !
What you need to know is that the Confucian classic "The Analects" is only more than 1000 words.The book with the largest number of words in the Han Dynasty is "Huainanzi", which is only more than 13 words.

In other words, as long as the improved papermaking and printing techniques are fully promoted, the dissemination of knowledge will become extremely rapid!At that time, perhaps it will not be difficult for ordinary mud legs to learn how to be rich!

In the era of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, how difficult it is to spread knowledge, there is a story that may be used as a reference.

In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wang Chong, a native of Kuaiji, wrote "Lunheng", an immortal masterpiece of materialist philosophy.However, limited by the conditions at that time, scholars in the Central Plains could only hear the title and a few words of the book but could not read the full text.

Until more than 100 years later, Wang Lang, a native of Donghai, Xuzhou, served as the prefect of Kuaiji, and then returned to the north because of Sun Ce's march into Jiangdong.After Wang Lang returned to the north, he discussed learning with his early friends.Friends found that his knowledge had increased dramatically.At that time, some people speculated that during his stay in Kuaiji, Wang Lang either met great people or read great books.As a result, he asked, and sure enough, he read the complete "Lunheng" in Kuaiji.As a result, knowledge has greatly increased.

Therefore, in this era, the dissemination of knowledge is really difficult.As a result, the rulers of the country hated the aristocratic family on the one hand, but on the other hand had to rely on the aristocratic family.

What if the dissemination of knowledge became faster and cheaper?Then, the cultural foundation of the aristocratic family monopolizing official careers will collapse!
Therefore, this thin book had an extremely huge impact on the heads of these top aristocratic families.

"Speaking of which, I might as well say something off-topic. In the past, the three prefectures of Yi, Yong, and Liang in the Han Dynasty, after years of hard work, managed to set up elementary schools in the other 39 counties except Wuyuan County. Today, the eight states of Kanto have The three prefectures of Yi, Yong, and Liang belong to the same Han Dynasty. Then, we are also planning to set up elementary schools in the counties of the eight prefectures in Kanto. However, the teachers are still insufficient, so the establishment of this elementary school cannot be spread across the country at once. It can only be established one by one. Come. This year, the goal of the fourth year of Guiyuan is to first set up Mengxue in the newly established counties in the eastern half of Yongzhou, as well as in Bingzhou and Yuzhou. Next year, it will be expanded to Jizhou, Youzhou, Qingzhou and Pingzhou..."

Books became cheap and produced extremely quickly, and the pedagogy responsible for enlightening lower-class children gradually expanded.Although it is said that one elementary school in one county can cover a very small area, it has opened a big hole in the family's monopoly on knowledge after all.It is said that the embankment of a thousand miles was destroyed by ant nests, let alone such a big hole?

Times have really changed.This is the common understanding of all the participating Patriarchs.

And some excellent Patriarchs even thought that competition, competition from all walks of life, would reappear.If our family wants to continue to be brilliant, we must make changes accordingly.Otherwise, what awaits them is disillusionment!
"Everyone, I have just said so much. In fact, I can roughly guess what you are thinking in your mind. I am afraid that you are not thinking about how to join forces to rebel when you go back?"

"Ah?! Da Sima was joking, the great Han generals are invincible in every battle, how dare we have such outrageous thoughts?"

"That's right, Da Sima and His Majesty launched this printing method, so that the sage's words can quickly enlighten the world. What a great event. We are happy, and it's too late to rejoice."

"Well, no matter what you think, I would like to tell you two things: First, the so-called Hushu does not flow and does not rot. A person, a family, and a country must constantly move, change, and introduce competition to achieve long-term success. Existence. The nine-rank Zhongzheng system has only been reformed by Sima Zhongda for more than [-] years. Look at your children, how are they compared to you? Second, the blood relationship of this family is almost the limit, and the four generations under the same roof are almost the limit. Next It should be the fifth generation! Therefore, the fortune of a person, a family, and a country will have ups and downs. There is no country that lasts forever, and there is no one who lives smoothly. The interests will definitely be damaged due to the large number of competitors. But in the long run, it will be extremely beneficial for your family to survive for a long time.

certainly!There are always some stupid people who only see immediate benefits but not long-term things.Such a person, whether His Majesty or this official, cannot be saved.Therefore, if you are really dissatisfied with the promotion of education and the prosperity of culture and education.After going back, despite the rebellion, I will let you see how fast my big man's army came! "

Looking at this group of guys who were unhappy but forced to smile because of the situation, Guan Yi didn't have any mercy or restraint at all: "Generally speaking, even if you are dissatisfied with my big man, you will never end in person. Therefore, since ancient times, if the aristocratic family is dissatisfied with the court, it often supports a certain group of thieves to revolt, and then sees the success or failure of this group of thieves. Well, this is indeed a good way. So, I will make it clear to you that starting from this year Wherever there are large-scale bandits, the imperial court will of course send troops to strangle them quickly. However, if the soldiers of my big man wiped out the manor of a certain gentleman nearby, I don’t think they did anything wrong!”

"Ah? Da Sima, what you said is really inappropriate!"

"That's right, what you said, Da Sima, is too, too much..."

"Hehehe, everyone, what Da Sima said just now is exactly what I mean. Well, please be patient and don't be impatient. Please listen to what Da Sima has said."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." After bowing his hands to Liu Chen, Guan Yi turned around: "The imperial court has issued an order that starting from the first day of April this year, the whole country will conduct a unified household tax check again!"

"what?"

"You actually!"

"Ouch! I've been fooled!"

If the promotion of education is the cultural basis for dismantling the monopoly of official careers by aristocratic families.Then checking the household tax is to disintegrate the economic foundation of the family.The former still needs a long time, but the latter is just around the corner.

"Huh!" At this time, Guan Yi didn't even have a basic disguise, and directly put on a fierce face: "Just today, the garrisons all over the country acted in unison, and cooperated with officials and envoys from all over the country to check the household taxes in various places. The duration is Two months. Within two months, in order to avoid disturbances and rebellions in the Kanto region that will cause trouble to all of you present, so, for these two months, everyone should live in Chang’an permanently!"

(End of this chapter)